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Bartholomew

Craig Bartholomew was born in Pinetown, Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa. He studied theology at the University of South Africa and then at Oxford University. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Church of England in South Africa and spent three years in the pastoral ministry before taking up a lecturing position at George Whitefield College in Cape Town. He completed a Masters degree through Potchefstroom University on the composition of Deuteronomy and then spent a year doing philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He went on to do a doctorate through the University of Bristol while based at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education in England. His doctorate was completed in 1997. He remained as a research fellow in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education until 2004 when he took up the post of H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy and Biblical Studies at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He is involved with the Paidea Centre.

Craig was involved in the Christian Worldview Network (CWN), which was founded South Africa in the 1990s by a group of individuals devoted to exploring the implications of a Christian worldview for all areas of life. Craig wrote several pieces for the CWN's magazine Many-to Many which can be accessed here:

1997. “The Healing of Modernity: A Trinitarian Remedy? A Critical Dialogue With Colin Gunton’s ‘The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity.’” European Journal of Theology 6.2 (1997): 111-130.

1998. “The Church and the World: the Power of Identity,” in Signposts of God’s Liberating Kingdom. Perspectives for the 21st Century. Volume 1, edited by B. van der Walt et al (Potchefstroom, SA: IRS, Potchefstroom University for CHE, 1998), 21-30.

2002. “Introduction,” in A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan, edited by C. G. Bartholomew, J. Chaplin, R. Song, and A. Wolters (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series 3; Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 1-45.

2002. “A Time for War and a Time for Peace: Old Testament Wisdom, Creation and O’Donovan’s Theological Ethics,” in A Royal Priesthood? The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan, edited by C. G. Bartholomew, J. Chaplin, R. Song, and A. Wolters (Scripture and Hermeneutics Series 3; Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 91-112.

2005. "In front of the Text: The Quest of Hermeneutics,” in The Bible in Pastoral Practice: Readings in the Place and Function of Scripture in the Church, edited by P. Ballard and S. R. Holmes (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005), 135-152. [off-site]